Fine artist Joshua Bronaugh was born in Würzburg, Bavaria (Germany) in 1983, and has lived in several places in the United States and Europe since. His oil paintings are fabulous and his subject matter is primarily nudes.If I lived in a city that was occupied by tanks and gunfire, then my paintings wouldprobably be political. But I don't. I live in Kentucky, which means that mysurroundings are occupied instead by something else: an ever present, but silent,profound presence of the American landscape. And because of this, my work is fullwith a different kind of politics: the psychology of my life as it exists in thislandscape.This landscape is at times luminous, oppressive, lush, or colorless, as it sees fit. Butno matter what form is takes, it sinks into my psyche daily, and I am armed with it,for better or worse, each time I approach a canvas indoors, each time I notice andarrange a model, and each time I compose ideas with wide ranging influences.